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To: John who wrote (37715)	9/14/2010 11:17:07 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (3) of 103300

So what? You said 'drug abuse' not 'arrests'. ('Arrests' don't = 'abuse' in that some drugs are targeted for prosecution resources to a much greater extent then others are. 'Abuse' levels can and are determined by more specific data.) And then I said 'it depends on what particular drugs you are talking about', which is true, and I said that if you correct for socioeconomic status the influence of race falls out of the aggregate numbers.. Federal arrest data is not necessarily the very best indicator or societal levels of abuse anyway (for example: prescription drug 'abuse' vastly exceeds levels of 'illegal' drug abuse, but is not reported in these statistics), and, as I pointed out, if one were to try for a comprehensive answer much of that would be determined mostly by what drugs you may be talking about (whites use more pot per-capita, and more meth, more psychedelics, more 'club drugs', for example... 'blacks' disproportionately show up in the crack cocaine numbers while whites use powder cocaine to a larger extent). Socio-economic status ('wealth') plays a MUCH BIGGER role than race ever does in the over-all numbers though.

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